Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 9

Cats hide pain well, so not jumping onto high places is often the only sign of sore joints; in the wild a cat that showed pain could be attacked.

Who acts: Cats, jumping, cat · What happens: hide, not jump, be, show, attack · To what, where: pain, high places, only sign, cat, wild

This is a sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cats, jumping, cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hide	nsubj
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sign	parataxis
3	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obj
4	well	well	ADV	_	2 hide	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 jumping	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 jumping	advmod
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 jumping	advmod
8	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 sign	csubj
9	onto	onto	ADP	_	11 places	case
10	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 places	amod
11	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 jumping	obl
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sign	cop
13	often	often	ADV	_	16 sign	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sign	det
15	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sign	amod
16	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 joints	case
18	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 joints	amod
19	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sign	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 attacked	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 wild	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wild	det
23	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 attacked	obl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cat	det
25	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 attacked	nsubj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 showed	nsubj
27	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cat	acl:relcl
28	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 showed	obj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 attacked	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 attacked	aux:pass
31	attacked	attack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 sign	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hide	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide	present	Cats	pain		well property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient
2	not jump	gerund			high places		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto place=Trajectory
3	is a	present	jumping	the only sign		of sore joints; often property	tree rules
4	show	past	a cat	pain			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pain=Recipient
5	attack	could · passive		a cat	the wild		vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:9.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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